Douglas Power v. Phillip M. Summers

How courts have described this case

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• noting that § 1983 permits, and Eleventh Amendment does not bar, official-capacity suits against state officials seeking only injunctive relief
• noting that § 1983 permits, and Eleventh Amendment does not bar, official-capacity suits against state officials seeking only in- junctive relief
• noting that an adverse employment action is not required in order for plaintiff to assert a viable § 1983 First Amendment retaliation claim
• finding that the “catch-up raise” at issue in this case was a raise and not a bonus because it had continuing effects when it was added to the recipients’ base salary
• reasoning that the denial of “a catch-up raise” is a sufficient deprivation
• stating that a “permissible characterization of what the plaintiffs [were] seeking” was “an injunction that orders a state employee who has been demoted because of his exercise of a federally protected right to be restored to his previous position”

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